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In THE EROTOMANIAC (Da Capo), Ian Gibson investigates the life of Henry Spencer Ashbee, a respectable Victorian merchant who collected thousands of volumes of pornography spanning several centuries and languages. Gibson believes that Ashbee was also the author of "My Secret Life," a notorious piece of Victorian pornography, reasoning,...
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